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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to a spooky edition of the Stardom Sidham Show.

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Speaker 1: I'm Marcus Grant, joined by Michael F. Florio, the author

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Speaker 1: of the very not scary Stardom Sitdem column. There's nothing

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Speaker 1: frightening in that column, is there. It depends if the

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Speaker 1: player hits or not. Yes, really that's actually a very

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Speaker 1: fair comment there, so you can check it out. Of course,

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Speaker 1: every week at NFL dot com slash Start sit But

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Speaker 1: this is what we do. We break it down for

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Speaker 1: you in digestible, bite size form. We got plenty to

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Speaker 1: talk about here. On Halloween weekend, we have hit week eight,

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Speaker 1: which means we are at the midway point of the

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Speaker 1: fantasy regular season, so we're going to tell you who's

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Speaker 1: going to pile up the points. Plus we got our

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Speaker 1: Fantasy mid season Awards. The Kwan Jones will join us

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Speaker 1: for that a little bit later on in the show.

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Speaker 1: But let's get in to the starts and cents four

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Speaker 1: Week eight, starting with the quarterback position. So who are

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Speaker 1: you scaring up on your list this week?

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Speaker 2: I am scaring Jared Goff into my starting lineup, Joe

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Speaker 2: Burrow brock Perty if he plays, Sam Darnold if he

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Speaker 2: doesn't is in play. As a streamer, I would say,

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Speaker 2: see Jay Stroud and then the frightening guys this week,

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Speaker 2: Dak Prescott against the Rams, Geno Smith against the Browns,

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Speaker 2: Matt Stafford against the Cowboys, and I want no part

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Speaker 2: of Jordan Love against the Vikings.

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Speaker 1: So let's start with Joe Burrow. And for a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks we were scared to start him, but we

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Speaker 1: were also scared to bench him as well. Look the

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Speaker 1: matchup on paper against the forty nine ers seems like

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Speaker 1: one you don't want to mess with. But you got

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Speaker 1: some confidence in Joey b this week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna give Joe another I did that terribly.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna give him another shot this week. Though. He

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Speaker 2: started to look healthier before the bye. And that's the

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Speaker 2: thing with Joe Burrow, and he is healthy, we know

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Speaker 2: he is a must start option regardless of the matchup.

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Speaker 2: Now with the bye, I'm hoping we see him healthier

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Speaker 2: than ever. And the nine or on paper, yes, they

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Speaker 2: are his toughest test yet, but they struggle more against

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Speaker 2: the pass. They are very good against the run. We

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Speaker 2: just saw Kirk Cousins and the Vikings without Justin Jefferson

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Speaker 2: light them up. I think Joe Burrow with Jamar Chase

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Speaker 2: and everyone else that he has at his disposal to

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Speaker 2: Higgins and Plus, I mean they wear black and orange.

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Speaker 2: This is their weekend.

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Speaker 1: You gotta start your Bengals tar to go against a

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Speaker 1: pumpkin team on Halloween weekend. Meanwhile, Jared Goff, we like

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Speaker 1: to say all the time, he is an indoor cat,

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Speaker 1: and he's going to be indoors on Monday Night against

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Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Raiders. This feels like an easy start. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: If Jared Goff played all of his games at home

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Speaker 2: this year, he would be the Fantasy QB one right now.

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Speaker 2: That's just how good he has been at home. He's

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Speaker 2: given you over eighteen fantasy points in every home start

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Speaker 2: this year. He's also thrown multiple passing touchdowns in them all.

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Speaker 2: And the Raiders generate pressure at just the fourth lowest

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Speaker 2: rate in the NFL. So I think Golf with that

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Speaker 2: Lion's offensive line will have plenty of time to just

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Speaker 2: comfortably get the ball to Lapo aman Ros Saint Brown,

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Speaker 1: I Meanwhile, the Raiders have been masquerading as a defense

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Speaker 1: for the last couple of weeks, so we'll see how

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Speaker 1: that goes coming up on Monday night. Those are the quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: Let's turn our attention now to the wide receivers. Taking

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Speaker 1: a look at your start sit list for week eight.

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Speaker 2: A lot of starts this week.

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Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin, because if you're not playing Scary Terry on

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Speaker 1: Halloween weekend, what are you doing. Zay Flowers and a

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Speaker 2: Rashid Rice has really come to life as of late,

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Speaker 2: and you start Drake London even in spite of Arthur

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Speaker 2: Smith and then some sits like I know I said

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Speaker 2: he start your Bengals, but if you've gotten this far

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Speaker 2: without t Higgins, I think you could try to get

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Speaker 2: away from him and just play wait and see Approach,

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Speaker 1: Then Jerry Judy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's He's like a permanent sit right now.

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Speaker 1: Jerry Judy has been on the sit list ever since

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Speaker 1: Steve Smith smoked him on national television, just as not

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Speaker 1: being able to get off the sit list since then.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Zay Flowers though, because the rookie has

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Speaker 1: The Ravens offense looks like it's starting to click right now,

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Speaker 1: and he's got a great matchup against the Arizona Cardinals.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the matchup one, like you said today, Flowers

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Speaker 2: But the matchup is what gets me excited. Not only

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Speaker 2: have the Cardinals allowed the most fantasy points to Wade

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Speaker 2: receivers in the last month, they play zone coverage eighty

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Speaker 2: percent of the time, and Flowers eats against zone coverage

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Speaker 2: eighty eight percent of his yards and his loan touchdown

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Speaker 2: has come against that plus fifty or more yards in

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Speaker 2: his first seven career games. The only other wide receiver

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Speaker 2: to do that in NFL history is Jamar Chase. Like

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Speaker 2: he is an elite company, start Exavian kievon Flowers this week,

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Speaker 2: we use the full government name.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely looking for Flowers to bloom in the desert this week. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: a veteran in Tennessee not giving us what we'd hope for.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess it's not a surprise because the

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Speaker 1: Titans passing offense hasn't been great but now de Andre

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Speaker 1: Hopkins either dealing with Will Levis, who might be a

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Speaker 1: bona fide sociopath putting mayo in his coffee, or Malik Willis.

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Speaker 1: Either way, it doesn't seem like a good situation.

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Speaker 2: No, and even with Ryan Tannehill like, it hasn't been

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Speaker 2: great for DeAndre Hopkins this year. He's averaging less than

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Speaker 2: eleven Fantasy points per game. He scored eight or fewer

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Speaker 2: this year with over fourteen Fantasy points. So the ceiling

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Speaker 2: has been low, the floor has been even lower. It's

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Speaker 2: a rookie quarterback, we think, like you said Marcus making

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Speaker 2: his first debut, a rookie quarterback who eats banana peels

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Speaker 2: and then the falcon secondary just deranged. Yeah, singy secondary,

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Speaker 2: deranged quarterback.

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Speaker 1: A lot of reasons to get away mayo and coffee

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Speaker 1: and eating banana peels, Like Will Levis, you are, You're different.

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Speaker 1: Cat Man's all I know about that. So there you go,

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Speaker 1: avoided DeAndre Hopkins if you can this weekend. Meanwhile, we're

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Speaker 1: just getting started here. We got running backs and tight

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Speaker 1: ends coming up. Plus we got the pile up stick around.

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Speaker 1: See who scores a lot of points in check out

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Speaker 1: more of the Stardom Cindam Show done to talk some

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Speaker 1: stardom SIEM running Backs four Week eight Florio.

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Speaker 2: Go Breise Hall as must start as must start, can

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Speaker 2: be same thing for Isaiah Pacheco this week. I like

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Speaker 2: Damian Pierce and I'm gonna give Jalen Warren a shot

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Speaker 2: this week, But I'm not gonna give his teammate Naji

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Speaker 2: So is Brian Robinson, Junior Miles Sanders and Emery de Mercado.

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Speaker 2: In the entire Cardinals backfield.

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Speaker 1: That Cardinals backfield has been a headache. But let's start

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Speaker 1: with Isaiah Pacheco because well, Broncos, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, you think a SAT The Broncos are in

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Speaker 2: the top three and allowing it to running backs.

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Speaker 1: You don't believe me.

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Speaker 2: They're in the top three and rushing yards, rushing touchdowns,

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Speaker 2: fantasy points, receiving yards, receiving touchdowns, and targets, I mean

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Speaker 2: and catches.

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Speaker 1: So this is Lincoln, how would you like to play?

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Speaker 1: They physically everything?

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Speaker 2: And yeah, Isaiah Pichecko seventeen fantasy points per game in

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Speaker 2: a touchdown in four of them. He at sixteen against

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Speaker 2: the Broncos earlier this year. You're starting Isaiah Pichecko this week, so.

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Speaker 1: I love the fact that you've got Jalen Warren as

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Speaker 1: a start, but Naji Harris is a set. It just

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Speaker 1: made me think of the hangover the whole like, not

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Speaker 1: you fat Jesus. That's kind of what I thought about

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Speaker 1: when I saw that. But why do you like Jalen

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Speaker 1: Warren against the Jags?

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Speaker 2: It's all about the matchup first of all. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if everyone knows this. Jalen Warren has outscored Naji

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Speaker 2: Harris every single week but won this year. The last

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Speaker 2: time they played was the only time that Naji Harris

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Speaker 2: outscored Warren. But Warren has reached double digit Fantasy points

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Speaker 2: and scored a touchdown in three straight and four of

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Speaker 2: his last five games. The Jaguars have allowed the fourth

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Speaker 2: fewest rushing yards this year to running backs, but they

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Speaker 2: allow the most catches and they're in the top four

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Speaker 2: and receiving yards allowed to the position as well, so

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Speaker 2: they struggle against past catching backs. Jalen Warren has more

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Speaker 2: than double the amount of targets this year as Naji Harris.

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Speaker 2: He's also the back that they like to use more

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Speaker 2: when they're playing from behind. So because of all of

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Speaker 2: those reasons, I think Jalen Warren is the Steelers running

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Speaker 1: At some point, hopefully the Steelers just decide to pick

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Speaker 1: we hope that that one is Jalen Warren. Those are

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Speaker 1: the running backs. Let's talk some tight ends because that

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Speaker 1: is maybe the most vexing position in all of fantasy football.

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Speaker 1: Who are your starts and sits for this week?

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Speaker 2: Michael Mayer because Halloween weekend of Darren Waller in the

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Speaker 2: battle for New Jersey, Taysom Hill, just keep an eye

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Speaker 2: on if Juwan Johnson is playing or not. And I

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Speaker 2: like Jake Ferguson a lot this week as well. My

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Speaker 2: sits Luke Musgrave against the Vikings David and Joku. It's

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Speaker 2: not you, it's just your offense. And then Hunter Henry

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Speaker 1: All right, so let's talk about Michael Mayer. Do do

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Speaker 1: best Halloween movie fun fact? The Michael Myers mask is

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Speaker 1: actually a William Shatner mask painted white. I've seen Halloween.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how many times. I never knew that

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Speaker 1: would say William Shatner mask. That's paim. Don't ask me

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Speaker 1: what I know that, but it's one of those facts

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Speaker 1: that just lives rent free in my head. But Michael

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Speaker 1: Mayer starting to come on, and the Lions were as

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Speaker 1: good as they've been defensively, not good against tight ends.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the thing. The Lions have allowed the

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Speaker 2: third most yards to tight ends this season. Michael Mayer

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Speaker 2: has fully taken over, I would say, as their top

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Speaker 2: tight end there in Vegas. He played seventy two percent

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Speaker 2: of the snaps last week, ran more routes than Austin Hooper.

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Speaker 2: That's been a couple of weeks in a row now

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Speaker 1: Look.

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Speaker 2: He is not a must start tight end, but we're

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Speaker 2: always looking for tight end streamers and I think that

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Speaker 2: is where he comes into play. Trey McBride another tight

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Speaker 2: rookie tight ends. I was very big on dal Kink

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Speaker 2: this week. We've both been very high on him this

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Speaker 2: year and Sam Laporta. Let's keep the rookie tight end

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Speaker 1: Hey, the rookie tight end class was supposed to be

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Speaker 1: very good, and these guys are starting to produce at

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Speaker 1: the midway point of the fantasy season. All right. I

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Speaker 1: take no pleasure in saying this out loud, but Taysom

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Speaker 1: Hill is actually a thing and is actually producing there

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Speaker 1: in New Orleans right now.

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Speaker 2: He came through last week with sixteen point eight Fantasy points,

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Speaker 2: he did it in a number of different ways. Ran

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Speaker 1: Ends this year. I mean, he's running routes, he's getting open,

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Speaker 1: To help us out with that, Laqwan Jones researcher extraordinary.

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Speaker 1: We all have a set of awards that we are

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Speaker 1: And to me, there is this is a no contest.

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Speaker 1: It is Puka Nikua right now.

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Speaker 2: I mean Poka Nakula and fantasy leagues either win as

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's gotta be amazing for anybody who kind

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Speaker 1: He has been amazing. In Lakwan. You are our resident

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Speaker 1: It's sort of fitting though, right because he plays next

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Speaker 3: I'm going to give the Overachiever Award to Traves etn Man.

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Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, you were drafting as a RB two,

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Speaker 3: For a game. I mean, what more could you ask for?

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Speaker 1: Iowa Heightened University just pumping out another one that we

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Speaker 1: I mean Lakwan. We had Week one when he had

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Speaker 1: We'll see what happens for him in Week eight against

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Speaker 1: I yeah, I understand folks who are dropping Damian Pierce.

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Speaker 1: Right, We're turning things around. Meanwhile, I'm giving you the

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Speaker 1: who is behind Derek Henry. He wasn't even playing, you know,

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Speaker 1: early in this season. He's just slightly ahead of Chuba Hubbard.

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Speaker 1: That's how bad things have been for Naji Harris. You

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Speaker 1: heard Laurio mentioned it early in the show that he's

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Speaker 1: been outscored by Jalen Warren in every single week but one.

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Speaker 1: He only has two games with double digit fantasy points.

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Speaker 1: He's generally been around five to six points most weeks,

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Speaker 1: and I mean Floria at this point, like, what do

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Speaker 1: you do because no one's gonna trade you for him?

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Speaker 1: Do you just drop Najie Harris? Now, I think he

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Speaker 1: gets too much volume where you can't drop him just

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Speaker 1: in case of injuries or buys.

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Speaker 2: But we always say, like anchor on your fantasy lineup,

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Speaker 2: that's Naji Harris is the definition of an.

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Speaker 1: Ankor just an anchor around that lineup right now? All right,

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Speaker 1: so let's come back around something a little bit more upbeat, Floria.

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Speaker 1: You've got something that we can all agree on right now.

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Speaker 2: The best Player in the World award. You already know

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Speaker 2: who I'm gonna say, it's Tyreek Hill. Like the scariest

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Speaker 2: site on an NFL football field is when Tyrek Kill

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Speaker 2: throws up the peace sign at your defense.

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Speaker 1: You just know it's a rap.

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Speaker 2: Then hey plus plus plus grade and you see there

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Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty six points, six PPR points. Coming

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Speaker 2: into Week eight, no other player was within fifteen Fantasy

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Speaker 2: points of him, and fifteen is a good game for

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Speaker 2: most players not named Tyreek Hill. Even with not having

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Speaker 2: played this week, he has more Fantasy points on the

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Speaker 2: year than Josh Allen and Stefan Diggs and all the

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Speaker 2: Bucks who have played an extra game more than he has.

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Speaker 2: He is the absolute best player in Fantasy right now,

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Speaker 2: and it's looking like if you don't have Tyreek Hill,

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Speaker 2: you might not be able to win a championship.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's wild you talk about, you know, fifteen points.

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Speaker 1: He had fifteen points in one game way back in

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Speaker 1: Week two. If he came back with fifteen points this week,

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Speaker 1: you'd be like, what what's wrong with Tyreek Hill? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: What happened where? Didn't go wrong any other widers. If

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Speaker 1: you're like, oh, that's pretty good, Tyrek Hill give you

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Speaker 1: fifteen points, You're like, ooh, he must have been sick

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Speaker 1: or something. No idea, what happened there? Lukwan, You've got

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Speaker 1: an underdog story right now. Yeah, you got a roof

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Speaker 1: for underdogs. Man.

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Speaker 3: Jacobe Myers has always been a productive wide receiver, even

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Speaker 3: dating back to his time in New England, which I'm

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Speaker 3: not quite sure why they let him walk, but man,

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Speaker 3: the best thing about Jacoby Myers right now is that

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Speaker 3: he's scoring touchdowns. Like that's the best thing going on

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Speaker 3: for him. He had trouble finding the enzone in New England.

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Speaker 3: He's actually leading the Raiders right now in touchdowns. Like

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Speaker 3: every time Jacoby Myers are scoring touchdowns, I was screening

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Speaker 3: my living room like a psychopath. He would think it

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Speaker 3: was pooking decor or a Cooper cuff like scoring touchdowns.

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Speaker 3: But like, I just got a roof for the underdog.

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Speaker 3: He's such a productive wide receiver. He's top twelve right

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Speaker 3: now and averaging seventeen Fantasy points per game, and like

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Speaker 3: he's has more targets than DeVante Adams in the last

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Speaker 3: three games. Like this is crazy to really talk about.

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Speaker 3: And you were getting him so late in drafts, so

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Speaker 3: you got a roof for the underdog here.

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Speaker 1: Man, the Patriots had to move on from Jacoby Myers.

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Speaker 1: That you give targets to a wash to Juju Smith

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Speaker 1: Houston just makes perfect sense. He's also made Hunter renfro expendable.

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Speaker 1: I mean, guy, yeah, it's a man like you forget

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Speaker 1: that he's on the roster because he's never on the

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Speaker 1: field and never seen, never gets targets in their offense anymore.

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Speaker 1: Our last award of the show is the Goodwill Hunting Award.

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Speaker 1: It's not your fault. It's not your fault. Kyle Pitts

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Speaker 1: it's not your fault. He doesn't get a great he

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Speaker 1: is an incomplete because look, it's not about you, Kyle,

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Speaker 1: it's about your head coach, who apparently just fantasy football

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Speaker 1: lives rent free in Arthur Smith's brain because every time

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Speaker 1: somebody asks him about his player usage, he makes a

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Speaker 1: reference to fantasy football. It's like, you know, Arthur, this

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Speaker 1: is about your offense maybe not living up to its

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Speaker 1: full potential because you want to force feed Cordero Patterson touches.

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Speaker 1: Nobody understands it. You've got a guy who's just an

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Speaker 1: absolute freak of nature athletically, and Kyle Pitts. You can't

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Speaker 1: consistently get opportunities. When we as fantasy folks, say you

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Speaker 1: should give Kyle Pitts the ball, it's not solely because

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Speaker 1: we want our fantasy teams to succeed, but it's because

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Speaker 1: it seems like you'd be the best reason for your

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Speaker 1: offense to succeed. Floryda, I mean, I know we do

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Speaker 1: this every week on the NFL Fantasy Football Show, we

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Speaker 1: do it here, right, but like, I don't even know

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Speaker 1: what to say anymore other than why why is this

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Speaker 1: happening to us? You know how Arthur Smith clearly has

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Speaker 1: some staying for fantasy managers.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly how we feel about you, Arthur Smith. Like

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Speaker 2: and just remember the Internet always gets the last laugh.

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Speaker 2: So we're just we're gonna keep this all in our

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Speaker 2: mind and we'll see at the end of the.

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Speaker 1: Year we've got the receipts. I mean, LQ, there's nothing

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Speaker 1: that brings the fantasy community together like Arthur Smith. Like

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Speaker 1: we don't agree on anything. We all agree that we

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Speaker 1: don't like the way Arthur Smith runs this.

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Speaker 3: Offense absolutely not Like I don't even care for the

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Speaker 3: Falcons in general. But when he comes to Kyle Pitts,

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Speaker 3: he's a generational talent and you're just keeping the Lamborghini

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Speaker 3: in the garage man, just letting him out, go on

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Speaker 3: the road and fit one hundred and forty, do whatever.

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Speaker 1: The case may be.

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Speaker 3: But he needs the ball in his hands more times

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Speaker 3: than John and Smith.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you that. I mean it really is that

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Speaker 1: meme of the sports card next to the beat up

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Speaker 1: old house with the whack car and cover on it,

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what Kyle Pitts is in the Falcons offense. Mean, well,

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Speaker 1: this show, it's been a lot of fun. We hope

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Speaker 1: that you enjoyed it. We enjoyed having you with us

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Speaker 1: on this episode of The Startum Sodam Show. For Laqwan Jones,

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Speaker 1: for Michael lef Floyda, I am Marcus Grant. We appreciate you. Hey,

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Speaker 1: it out with us. We'll talk to you again real

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Speaker 1: soon